text edition

Save This Word!

noun

a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).

QUIZZES

QUIZ YOURSELF ON “ITS” VS. “IT’S”!

Apostrophes can be tricky; prove you know the difference between it’s and its in this crafty quiz!

Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

it's

its

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Also called school edition

Origin of text edition

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby text edition

Tex-Mex, text, text blindness, textbook, textbookish, text edition, text editor, texter, text hand, textiform, textile

Example sentences from the Web for text edition

Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The text amply surveys the various cultural exponents of tattooing accompanied by excellent images.
The Best Coffee Table Books of 2014|Robert Birnbaum|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A limited edition export stout known as the Indra Kunindra came to wash it down.
Dinner at Nitehawk Cinema: ‘Christmas Vacation’ and a Beer in a Pear Tree|Rich Goldstein|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Editor's Note: This article has been revised to include the definition and text of Section 12.
Prof: MIT Hospitalized Me For Ferguson Tweets|Nina Strochlic|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A union representative told Buzzfeed News that they never received a text from Liang.
New York's Next Killer-Cop Grand Jury|Jacob Siegel|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The text of the amendments designed to carry out these recommendations will be submitted by the Board at an early date.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
In the early sixties a cheap edition appeared, and cheap editions were rare things then.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
A copy of Tendall's testament sold at Oxford for 20 guineas, supposed to be the only copy of that edition unburned by Tonstall.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

MEANINGS

WORD GAMES

LEARN

WRITING

WORD OF THE DAY